About us
Compute is becoming the next pillar of American infrastructure and a matter of national interest. The buildout requires unprecedented capital, deployed against fast-depreciating, high-tech collateral with no established secondary market, and risk slows that capital down.
American Compute exists to underwrite that risk so the United States can continue to lead in AI and in the infrastructure that powers it.
We have reviewed billions of dollars of GPU transactions, built proprietary datasets covering more than 600,000 data points on hardware pricing and depreciation, and analyzed dozens of colocation, MSA, and financing contracts. That work informs every policy we structure.
Headquartered in San Francisco, at the center of the industry we serve.
Team
Bernie Margulies · CEOBernie leads program business at American Compute. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation, the most prestigious credential in property and casualty insurance. His background spans technology investment, insurtech leadership, and underwriting for emerging asset classes. Previously C-suite at a $1B+ insurance carrier and senior roles at venture-backed insurance and technology companies.
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Illia Kasian · CTOIllia leads engineering at American Compute. Previously a founding engineer at a YC-backed insurance carrier and an ML engineer building fraud detection systems at scale. His background includes machine learning, full-stack development, and infrastructure engineering across insurance and defense technology.
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Brenden Reeves · COOBrenden leads operations and research at American Compute. Previously an ML consultant for several Fortune 500 companies and an ML engineer building NLP systems, graph-based RAG pipelines, and enterprise data platforms. His research background includes distributed graph neural network training for high-energy physics at CERN.
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